Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watson group had reserved an elephant-sized needle for cautious, compromising Harrison E. Spangler, G.O.P. national chairman. Last week Watsonites journeyed to Washington, gave Harrison Spangler the full hypodermic. He did not react. The meeting was distinctly cool. To a hint from Harrison Spangler that Watson is trying to split the G.O.P., Watson replied that he only wanted to help the G.O.P. win an election. With a huff & puff, Mr. Spangler informed the R.P.P.A. that he would be glad to submit their proposals to the Republican Postwar Advisory Council (formed by Mr. Spangler last May), which meets next month...
...Words and Cool. Said 83-year-old William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston: "The whole Christian world is saddened and grieved at the terrible news of the bombardment of Rome. . . . Whether or not it was thought to be a military necessity we must leave to the judgment and conscience of those responsible...
...coast of France seemed to move toward us. Now it was below, a brown and green patchwork. Our Spitfire escorts had come as far as their gas tanks would permit. A moment after they left, the first attack came. On the intercommunication system a cool voice said into our headphones: "Enemy fighter at eleven o'clock...
...Great New Star. Five years ago, when David Oliver Selznick, like a disguised Zeus, first started pawing up the turf and lowing in her vicinity, Ingrid Bergman was no easily-carried-away Europa. She was turning down offers, with the cool statement that she was doing very nicely...
...Russell tried to determine whether Strand's discovery was a true planet by two tests: 1) "How big is its body?" 2) "How hot is its surface?" (A stable planet must be smaller than its star, cool enough so that it shines only by reflected light.) From calculations based on the body's known mass* and probable compositions (mainly hydrogen and helium), Russell concludes that 1) its diameter is perhaps 216,000 miles, or 40% that of its star-"big for a planet, but passable"; 2) its surface temperature is probably somewhere between 50 and minus 168 degrees...